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Jana is exceptionally good at buying presents.  Really, scarily good.

I’m terrible at buying gifts, I wish I knew whatever it is she knows.

Next time anyone is shopping in London, I can now personally recommend Cath Kidston and Molton Brown.

Thanks to Jana’s thoughtfulness, I can now take my new shopping bag to the supermarket, buy up on groceries, then come home and bake away to my heart’s content in my new apron.

According to Patrick, the matching tea towel would look nice if I wore it scarf-like on my head, but I think I shall just use it for it’s original purpose.

After all my baking and dish-washing is finished, I will be able to bring my hands back to their naturally lovely state with my new white mulberry hand wash and lotion.

Happy days!

All thanks to Wincy, while in Hong Kong, I managed to buy TWO of the products that I have previously blogged about wanting.

I was delighted to discover the Causeway Bay Francfranc stocks Oh! Bear, the very ugly but very lovable bear I found online not long ago.  I now have an ugly little Oh! Bear all my own, who sits on the tea table looking rather forlorn and I am sure, just a little embarrassed by his somewhat scruffy appearance.

Wincy read my post about egglings and had seen some in Harbour City, so took me to buy a couple to bring home.  I bought a little lavender for myself and adopted a basil for Wincy, who can’t take it home to Melbourne with her.

I managed to crack their tops without smashing them all into tiny bits, which was an excellent start, but failed to notice the sunny days and relatively warm weather we have been having have completely disappeared, so the poor little things probably wont sprout.

They have been sitting with me in Patrick’s office with the heater on, so fingers crossed something might happen yet.

I found these Kam Kam mobile phone holders online today, and although my phone never rings, I still want one.

I think Chandler might like them too.

I spent this afternoon at the market buying plants and flowers for the apartment and dropping off some photos of temple gardens to be printed.

There is something about the sight of leaves and flowers that can lift my spirits no matter how grumpy I may be.

I wonder what it is about the simple outline of a flower that is so beautiful?

I somehow stumbled across the website of Studio Tord Boontje today, and I love everything about it. Such simple, beautiful designs, I think I could have one of everything…

Two of my favourite items were the Dye-cut wool Little field of flowers rug and the cut paper Midsummer light.

So, we are moving tomorrow.

Finally, after all the messing about, our apartment is ready. I was a little hesitant to write anything because when I do, it always seems to delay things somehow (still no car!!), but this should be it I think.

It took two days for us to pay for our furniture because the store wasn’t sure how to process foreign credit cards. They eventually figured it out this morning and were so embarrassed for the inconvenience they caught a taxi to our place with their portable eftpos machine and I met them in my pyjamas to sign. What service!

I have been looking for rugs on the internet today as I haven’t ever bought one before and have no idea what to buy. I found one for the upstairs area that I didn’t realise needed a rug… but now definitely does!

Its Alpaca/Wool blend and from Rosemary Hallgarten.